Lythrum salicaria
A perennial-herb Competitor — a wetland buffer at home, a fast attacker where it chokes North American waterways.
Purple Loosestrife is a perennial-herb card. Native to Europe and Asia, it plays a buffer; across North American wetlands, where it forms choking monocultures, it plays an attacker. See nativity.
Perennial-herb kit: level-1 starter, level-10 free ability, level-18 advanced attack, uncapped damage. Native power is baseline; invasive moves hit about 1.75× harder.
Resprout — survives one lethal hit per battle at ~25% HP. See abilities.
No innate combat keyword; conditional poison-rider/thorns only if the infobox flags them. Cheap 10-Sun retreat keeps it agile; match field gear to its role — defensive as native, offensive as invasive.
Moderate HP, level-scaling Def, light Sun, 10-Sun retreat. Native → HP ×1.15 cushion and bench HP overshield; invasive → ATK spike and Faustian bench self-damage per damaging attack.
Competitor group: ×1.5 into Ruderal (annual-forb, grass, aquatic, bulb); ×0.667 into Specialist (succulent, conifer, fern, epiphyte).
A competent mid-tier attacker as an invasive — good for grinding PvE coins — but nothing exotic in its kit, so it wants bench support to cover the Faustian chip and the KO bounty. As a native buffer it is a serviceable wall. Overall a solid collection card rather than a standout.